ai for science

XtalPi’s July 29 launch of XtalPi Science is a bid to turn AI for Science from a collection of model demos and laboratory point tools into a metered, end-to-end research platform—one that can plan work, call specialized models, operate automated experiments and learn from the results. As...

Microsoft is committing $60 million in cloud capacity, artificial intelligence services, and engineering support to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission, an ambitious federal effort intended to connect the country’s national laboratories, supercomputers, experimental facilities, and...

Utah State University researchers and collaborators published RF-PHATE on June 30, 2026, in Nature Computational Science, presenting a supervised AI visualization method for interpreting high-dimensional biological datasets including multiple sclerosis progression, COVID-19 plasma profiles, lung...

John Jumper, the American computational biologist and Google DeepMind vice president who helped lead AlphaFold to a 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, said on June 19, 2026, that he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic after a break. The move is more than a celebrity...

Microsoft Research published “Rare Event Analysis via Stochastic Optimal Control” as an April 2026 research paper and promoted it in a June 16, 2026 Generative Modeling & Sampling Seminar from its New England lab, presented by Yuanqi Du and Carles Domingo-Enrich. The work is not a Windows...

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers used the May 7–9, 2026, AI+ Expo in Washington, D.C., to present DOE-backed work on the Genesis Mission, a federal push to combine artificial intelligence, supercomputing, scientific datasets, and laboratory automation for faster discovery. The...